Unit 1. Law and society

1. 1. to create law

2. to violate law

3. to observe law

4. to apply law

5. to amend law

6. to enforce law

1. соблюдать закон

2. приводить закон в жизнь

3. вносить поправки в закон

4. создавать закон

5. применять закон

6. нарушать закон

1. environmental law

2. employment law

3. contract law

4. copyright law

5. housing law

6. common law

7. case law

8. inheritance law

9. executive law

a) исполнительное право

b) прецедентное право

c) жилищное право

d) нормы по охране

окружающей среды

e) общее право

f) авторское право

g) наследственное право

h) трудовое право

j) договорное право

Criminal law regulates

International law regulates

Financial law deals with

Property law governs

Intellectual property law aims at

Constitutional law concerns

Family law covers

1. social structure, organization of state power and the legal status of citizens. Its principal source is the country’s Constitution.

2. the budget, taxation, state credits, and other spheres of financial activity.

2. the relations between the state and individual people and bodies. It defines the general principles of criminal responsibility, individual types of crimes and punishment applied to criminals.

2. disputes between citizens and the state, or between one state and another.

2. ownership and possession.

2. safeguarding creators and other producers of intellectual goods and services.

2. marriage and divorce proceedings, the rights of children and rights to property and money in the event of separation.

1. custom and precedents 2. advice 3. codes 4. legislators 5. changed